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- catalog abstract ""Heralds of the Postmodern inquires into the possibility of a poetics of madness in Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Golden Notebook. By relating the literary expression of the irrational in these works to the philosophical attempt to overcome the subject and rationality in the writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, the book presents modern fiction as an arena in which struggles between reason and madness, limitation and transgression, "self" and "the other" are fully displayed. It investigates how modern literature subverts traditional metaphysics by exploring the realm of the other reason and the new forms of subjectivity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10799143.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Heralds of the Postmodern inquires into the possibility of a poetics of madness in Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Golden Notebook. By relating the literary expression of the irrational in these works to the philosophical attempt to overcome the subject and rationality in the writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida, the book presents modern fiction as an arena in which struggles between reason and madness, limitation and transgression, "self" and "the other" are fully displayed. It investigates how modern literature subverts traditional metaphysics by exploring the realm of the other reason and the new forms of subjectivity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "I. Madness and the Language of Transgression -- II. Heart of Darkness: the Truth of Folly -- III. Mrs. Dalloway: Sanity and Insanity -- IV. The Golden Notebook: Forms of Madness -- V. Madness and Fiction.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-118) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 120 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Heralds of the postmodern.".
- catalog identifier "0820433764 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Heralds of the postmodern.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in literary criticism and theory ; v. 4".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog relation "Heralds of the postmodern.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.91091 20".
- catalog subject "Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013. Golden notebook.".
- catalog subject "Literature and mental illness Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness in literature.".
- catalog subject "Mentally ill in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR888.M46 C48 1999".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Madness and the Language of Transgression -- II. Heart of Darkness: the Truth of Folly -- III. Mrs. Dalloway: Sanity and Insanity -- IV. The Golden Notebook: Forms of Madness -- V. Madness and Fiction.".
- catalog title "Heralds of the postmodern : madness and fiction in Conrad, Woolf, and Lessing / Yuan-Jung Cheng.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".